Water is absolutely essential for your body to function well.  Water makes up 60% of your body, which is why it is important that you make sure that you are drinking enough water.  But how much is ‘enough’ water and how much extra water do you need to drink when fasting?   And why should you be drinking water in particular whilst fasting? Intermittent fasting, which is the one I use regularly, involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting, and research has shown that it improves weight loss and increases better brain function. But fasting needs to be regulated, understood and that is where water comes into it.  This blog will outline why water and fasting are an important combination.

Why is water an important part of your health

Water is essential for good health. It helps to break down your food so that your body can absorb the nutrients, it will aid your digestion without water your digestion will become uncomfortable and unreliable.  In the same way that your body needs macros  (protein, carbohydrates, and fats) to function, it also needs water.

Water is essential for your everyday bodily functions,  your body uses water for every cell, organ, and tissue to help maintain all your bodily functions.  Water is essential for all of life’s biological functions including boosting energy, improves digestion, helping to detoxify and hydrating your skin.

But the most essential job that water does is in delivering important nutrients to your cells, especially muscle cells.  Water is the elixir of life without it your cells won’t metabolise properly and you will be unable to flush out toxins from your body.

• Balancing acid-base levels – your kidneys and lungs work to maintain the acid-base balance. Even slight variations from the normal range can have significant effects on your vital organs and without drinking enough water your blood pH level

• Flush out toxins from your lungs, skin, and colon (particularly during a fast)

• Regulating your hormones

• Hydrating your skin

• Delivering important nutrients to your  cells

Water is essential for you, but even more so when you are fasting

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Why is water so important when fasting?

Fasting works by prolonging the period when your body has burned through the calories consumed from your last meal and begins burning fat.  In order to keep you feeling satiated drinking water will not only help you to feel fuller but will also ensure that your body functions well.

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1. Water keeps your digestive flow going when fasting

Water lubricates the food that you eat and water aids the smooth digestion and flows through your body. Water will greatly help the elimination of waste products and make the entire operation run more smoothly. Is that polite enough?

Fasting will help to restore good digestion and elimination. The movement through your intestines which is referred to as the peristaltic action is quickened.  These functions are all greatly improved with the addition of water to flush your system.

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2. Toxin Removal is increased when fasting

Your body uses a lot of energy to digest food which is one of the main reasons the health-conscious turn to Intermittent Fasting.  When you are fasting the energy previously used for the digestion of your food can be used for other purposes like the elimination of dead cells, damaged tissues, fatty deposits, tumours, abscesses. These undesirables are either burned for fuel or expelled as waste.

The elimination of these undesirable toxins will restore your immune system and help perk up your metabolism.  Water is essential for helping with the elimination of these by-products.  Water assists in the cleansing, detoxification, and purifying of your intestines,  blood, and cells.

Your bodily fluids transport all the waste out of your body. When you have the right amount of water then your kidneys and your whole renal system will work smoothly on excreting this waste produce without a hindrance.

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3. Water keeps your brain going whilst fasting.

Your brain is made up of 85% water. A loss of water intake can result in adverse bodily effects due to hampered brain function. Simply put in normal circumstances if you are not drinking enough water then your brain function will be affected, whilst fasting this risk is considerably increased as your body needs more water to expel your toxins and purify your body.

When your body has a shortage of water, it takes it from less important places (joints) to use in more important place (brain)

4. Water stimulates your nervous system when fasting

Your nervous system consists of the most important part of your body which is, the brain. Your whole system can be rejuvenated through enough water consumption,

5. Fasting removes fat, but only when you have enough water

Fasting won’t be a success if you are not able to meet your daily water intake. Keeping your body water balance intact helps in decreasing your weight. The liver helps to break down the fat with the help of water and it’s nutrients.

Your brain communicates to your kidneys with the help of the posterior pituitary gland, signalling the amount of water to excrete or hold on to. In case you are low on your body fluids, the thirst mechanism is triggered.  However, this thirst mechanism is often confused with the ‘I’m hungry’ message.

Ensuring that you are drinking enough water will mean that you will be able to satiety both your thirst and your hunger mechanism.  Not only that, drinking water, can help you to feel full, which is important when you are first getting into IF.

How much water do you need to drink?

A daily recommendation for your fluid intake is about three litres of fluid which is about twelve glasses of water each day.  Approximately one of those 3 litres (about four cups of water) comes from your food.

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When your body is in a fasted state it starts to break down damaged components and detoxifies your body. It is very important that you flush out those toxins by drinking lots of water. Ideally, you will drink more water than you usually would. I drink roughly 2-3 litres every day, especially when I am exercising.

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Find out what other clients have to say…

What brought you on board with Get Gorgeous? What inspired you to connect with me and come on board Get Gorgeous

“I was was missing something in my life.  I was not confident and  I just felt really empty. I followed you on your Pilates, I followed some of your blogs, and it’s just literally an email came in one day and said, why don’t we have a chat? And I just reached out, and from that very first conversation, I felt comfortable talking to you.”

So, from that position that you were in, what was it, was it seven, eight months ago, how are you feeling now, what is the transformation that you’ve seen in yourself?

“Everything’s changed. My life has completely changed,  I have just found the person that I want to be, and it’s not about creating myself, it’s just about being confident to be the person you want to be. I used to think everybody was judging me.

And now, you’re comfortable being yourself?

“I love being myself. I love the fact I can look in a mirror, and like, like myself. You have no idea, how powerful that has been.  The whole of my adult life, there are a handful of photographs of me, because I would not let anyone take my photograph, I didn’t like my looks, I was very detrimental about myself, and now, I will go out without makeup, I will have my hair into tousled, because it doesn’t need to be perfect. Because I’m not perfect, I’m so grateful for how I look, but I’m more grateful for how I feel”

You stepped into yourself and you are confident. And how has that affected your business?

“Oh my God, my business is flying. Flying. I have gone from being, that little girl behind the desk, who was too scared to come out from the desk, who was quite happy to shout and demand and push, because, that’s how you run a business, of course that’s how you run a business, isn’t it?

And the reality of it is, no, you don’t. You open yourself up. Opening yourself up and  sometimes, people look and don’t quite like you, I actually don’t worry about that any more, because, that’s about them, that’s not about me, I love how I can connect, especially how I can connect with other women. Never had that in my life. Never, always surrounded myself with masculinity, I now crave female contact. I am networking, something that I have never done.

And you’re speaking, as well. You’re speaking onstage, aren’t you?

 

 

“I am and that is so out of my comfort zone, I love the fact that I push myself out of that comfort zone, and I do that, and what I get back from it, is also my true self and I speak from the heart, because that is massive, I love that, and I love how it makes me feel.”

Good, that’s superb, am I right in thinking that you had a background with Slimming World and you were a leader, is that right?

Well,I’ve done Slimming World for two years, I’ve lost four stone, which was the start. 

But it didn’t help me with not liking myself very much and then I got to a point where I was thinking to myself: How can you tell yourself, you can have 15 sins a day? What is that  you’re saying to yourself? 15 sins, sins, the word sins.

I didn’t understand any nutrition, and it was the fact that I really wanted to understand more about how my body worked, what I ate, fuelled it, being told, yeah, you can eat endless low-fat things, and all of those things, and of course, now it’s coming out, isn’t it all those sugar in low fat things. It’s an absolute eye-opener, starting this journey. Opening my mind to learning about nutrition and just educating, educating myself.

I understand what it all does, it’s not about restriction, it’s about education.

Excellent. Brilliant. Inspiring words. Thank you so much, Sandra.

“No, thank you. As you know, my famous words are, everybody needs Adele in their live, So grateful you came into my life, so thank you.”

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I am looking forward to speaking with you.

Sandra Wiggins Business owner Get Gorgeous Premier 31st October 2017